page_title: Marcial Solana González-Camino
section_title: Family and youth
hierarchical_section_title: Marcial Solana González-Camino / Family and youth
caption_attribution_description: Español: Finca de Riosequillo, portalada de entrada al parque
context_page_description: Marcial Solana González-Camino was a Spanish scholar, writer and politician. In science he is best known as historian of philosophy and author of a monumental work on 16th century Spanish thinkers, though he contributed also to history, theory of law and theology. In politics he is recognized chiefly as a Traditionalist theorist of state, apart from his rather modest militancy within Integrism and Carlism. Throughout all his life he was also active in various lay Catholic organizations.
context_section_description: The Solana family was first recorded in the 13th century as related to Liaño, a village currently situated on the outskirts of Santander; members of the local hidalguia, its representatives were later many times noted as civil and religious servants in the region. In the mid-18th the Solanas held already a mayorazgo in the Liaño quarter of Socabarga; the first to settle in the nearby Villaescusa was Marcial's great-grandfather, Roque de Solana Río. In the early 19th century he already held a number of estates in the province and grew to the Cortes deputy in the 1810s. His son, Pedro Solana Collado (1801-1868), served as infantry colonel and sided with the Carlists during the First Carlist War; exiled, in the 1840s he returned following the amnesty, but engaged in Carlist conspiracy of 1855. Married in 1846, he built a house on the Rosequillo estate in La Concha de Villaescusa. His son and Marcial's father, Marcial Rufo Solana González-Camino (1847-1885), multiplied the family wealth trading flour in Cuba; upon return to Spain in 1879 he married a cousin, Elvira Irene González-Camino de Velasco (1861-1939), herself descendant to a well-to-do Cantabrian bourgeoisie family.
  Though Marcial Rufo and Irene held a number of estates, they lived mostly at calle Calderon 5 in Santander. They had only two children, Marcial's sister born posthumously; the siblings were raised in a fervently Catholic ambience. In 1890 Marcial Augusto Justino took entry exams to Instituto de Segunda Ensañanza of Santander, but for unclear reasons he pursued curriculum with the Jesuits in Orduña; he obtained bachillerato, confirmed by Instituto de Bilbao, in 1896. The same year he entered the Jesuit Deusto institute; in 1899 he graduated sobresaliente in Filosofia y Letras and in 1902, also sobresaliente, in law. Spared military service he commenced doctoral research in Madrid. In 1904 Solana obtained PhD laurels – sobresaliente – in law, and in 1906 he paired it – always sobresaliente – with the one in philosophy, also in Madrid. 
  Though scholar in law, Solana did not enter Colegio de Abogados and did not practice, all the same some press titles referred to him as "ilustrado abogado". He commenced professional career neither. A wealthy man who inherited a number of plots, 56 in the Santander province alone, he lived off the land rent. Owner of a number of mansions dubbed palacios, the key ones in Esles, Socabarga and Villaescusa, Solana lived mostly in Santander, in the last decades of his life spending summers in his favorite estate, Granja Santa María in Vizcaínos de la Sierra, in the Burgos province. He has never married and had no children. His biographer claims Solana led an austere life, spending money on books, travelling and investments in his rural economy, though in the 1920s he was noted as one of few cars owners in the Santander province. Solana's best known relative was his maternal cousin, José Luis Zamanillo, a Carlist and Francoist politician known mostly in the 1960s and 1970s.
caption: Rosequillo[1] entry gate
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